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Philadelphia Surpasses California This Time, With California Number One In 2018-2019.             The American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) has come out with its 2019-2020 “Judicial Hellholes” Report.  California slipped from #1 to #2, but only because Philadelphia was rated as really bad by ATRA.             Here is the listing of the worst venues for defendants […]

Receivable Collection Cycles With Clients Lengthened During The First Half Of 2019.             In an August 21, 2019 article by Debra Cassens Weiss on ABA’s on-line journal, she reports on the results of a Citi Private Bank’s Law Firm Group’s survey of 191 U.S. firms, ranging from top-grossing to boutique firms.             Although the polled

Fee Award Included A Positive 1.5 Multiplier For Plaintiffs’ Counsel.             Gibson’s Bakery and its owners sued Ohio’s Oberlin College for libel/intentional infliction of emotional distress, winning a jury verdict of around $44 million (compensatory and punitive damages added together).  Later, Lorain County Common Pleas Judge John Miraldi reduced the judgment to $25 million—Ohio’s largest

Hourly Billing Rate Still Prevails For Legal Work Referred By Corporations To Outside Counsel.             The Association of Corporate Counsel and recruiting firm Major, Lindsey & Africa partnered up to release a 2019 Global Legal Department Benchmarking Report, which can be obtained freely through a Website search.  It involved interview responses from 508 corporate law

Communication/Clarity At All Stages Pervade These “Rules.”           We thank NALFA for summarizing an article by Todd C. Scott, Vice-President of Risk Management at Minnesota Lawyers Mutual, entitled “Nine Rules For Billing Ethically and Getting Paid on Time” (which came from an ABA website article).   Here are the rules, to which

City Is Appealing The Merits Determination Of Voting Rights Violations; Plaintiffs’ Lead Counsel Estimates City Spent Between $13-20 Million On Defense Side.      As reported by Jorge Casuso in “Voting Rights Attorneys Seek More Than $22 Million In Legal Costs” in an updated June 4, 2019 post in the Santa Monica Outlook, Plaintiffs’ attorneys are

Lawsuit Claims Insurer Only Paid 25% Of Total Fees.             As reported in the May 8, 2019 edition of The Orange County Register, San Juan Capistrano has sued its insurer Tokio Marine Specialty Insurance Company to recoup $1.9 million in unpaid legal fees the City incurred in reaching a settlement respecting water contamination at the

$665,000 Is Fees/Costs Allocation To Class Counsel Allis Manufacture Company, October 1942, Female Employees Line Up To Punch Their Timecards             As reported on March 27, 2019 in the on-line version of The Hollywood Reporter, Vice Media has agreed to settle a female gender pay gap class action for about $1.875 million in a Los Angeles